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Subject: New Leaf Program
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
02/13 - New Leaf Program
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Subject: County 4-H Public Speaking and Baked Foods Contest
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: 125 N Broadnax St Dadeville Al - Courthouse
Calendar: ACES 4-H & Youth Development
02/16 - County 4-H Public Speaking and Baked Foods Contest
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Subject: Pasture / Hayfield Improvement Series
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: 1st Baptist Church, Dadeville Alabama
Calendar: ACES Animal Science & Forages
Event Website
02/16 - Pasture / Hayfield Improvement Series
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Subject: New Leaf Program
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
02/20 - New Leaf Program
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Subject: Pasture / Hayfield Improvement Series
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: 1st Baptist Church, Dadeville Alabama
Calendar: ACES Animal Science & Forages
Event Website
02/23 - Pasture / Hayfield Improvement Series
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Subject: New Leaf Program
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
02/27 - New Leaf Program
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Subject: New Leaf Program
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
03/05 - New Leaf Program
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Subject: New Leaf Program
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
03/12 - New Leaf Program
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Subject: New Leaf Program Graduation
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
03/19 - New Leaf Program Graduation
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Subject: Alabama BCIA Sponsored Cattlemen's College #3
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 700 Monroe Street SW, Huntsville, AL 35801
Calendar: ACES Animal Science & Forages
Event Website
03/31 - Alabama BCIA Sponsored Cattlemen's College #3
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Common Lawn Weeds
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Nutsedge
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- Perennial warm-season grass.
- Also commoly called "Nutgrass".
- Rapidly mutliplying perennial sedge with three basal leaves.
- Slender, triangular, light green stems up to 24 inches tall.
- Plants reproduce by seeds, rhizomes, but primarily by tubers (nuts).
Yellow Nutsedge
- Leaf blades are deeply grooved, ususally shorter than flowering stem.
- Basal leaves with yellowish-brown or straw colored seedhead.
- Leaves have sharp pointed "hypodermic" tip.
- Tubers are round, lacking hairs, and formed at ends of whitish rhizomes; individual tubers (no chain of tubers).
- Some tubers are sweet to taste.
Purple Nutsedge
- Leaf blades are deeply grooved, ususally as long or longer than flowering stem.
- Basal leaves with purple to reddish-brown seedhead.
- Leaves have tapered tip.
- Tubers are oblong, covered with hairs, and found in chains connected by brown, wiry rhizomes.
- Tubers bitter to taste.
Control Methods
- Hand Removal or Hoeing.
- Herbicides:
- Postemergence - bentazon, MSMA / DSMA*, imazaquin **,
* MSMA / DSMA kills centipede and St. Augustine grass.
** Calibration is critical to avoid over application and turf injury.
Do not use within the root zone of desirable trees and shrubs.
Always Read the Label
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Yellow Nutsedge, left;
Purple Nutsedge, right.
Yellow Nutsedge has a yellowish-brown
or straw colored seedhead.
Rhizomes end in "nuts |
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